Connecticut restaurants offer relief for Puerto Rico

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HARTFORD -- The Connecticut PR group "Eat in Connecticut" created a coalition of more than 75 restaurants to help hurricane victims in Puerto Rico.

"We wanted to bring the community together. We thought we`d be stronger as a whole.," says Jeannette Dardenne who helped create Eat in Connecticut.

The initiative is called "CT loves Puerto Rico". Each restaurant will feature a Puerto Rican-inspired dish or drink. All proceeds made from those menu items will be donated to Unidos Por Puerto Rico--a fundraising effort created by the first lady of Puerto Rico.

It's an effort that many Connecticut restaurant works admire.

"We're just glad to help out. We try to help out the local causes whenever it approaches us and they're having a rough time down there and we're just glad that we can participate," says Anthony Sulo, the owner of Joey's Pizza Pie in West Hartford.

"I grew up around Puerto Ricans," says Brian Harris, manager of City Steam in Hartford. "My friends, co workers, a lot of people just in my community in general. And for an entire culture to be affected by something like this of this magnitude it's kind of hard to stand by idle and not do anything."